Scottish Episcopal Church Punished for Performing ‘Gay Wedding’

(Daily Caller) — The leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion imposed consequences against the Scottish Episcopal Church on Tuesday for allowing and performing “gay weddings.”

Bishop Mark Strange, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, told the gathering of primates, or Anglican leaders, that the Scottish Episcopal synod accepted the consequences for their June decision, which bars the church from taking part in Communion-wide decisions and from sitting on any church-governing bodies for three years, according to Anglican News.

The Scottish church nevertheless remained resolute in both supporting “gay marriage” and maintaining its membership in the Anglican Communion.

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Robin Egg

What is there to discuss? God’s Word clearly condemns homosexuality, therefore, it can never be sanctioned in a Christian church. That church will then become apostate. Another sign of calling evil good and good evil. Tragic.

ThroatwobblerMangrove

What’s your proposal to homosexuals? They can’t change. You want them to live loveless lives?

When it has been demonstrated that science is right about something and your Christian faith is incorrect, you have an opportunity to correct your thinking but you don’t. You continue to believe what’s wrong.

If I could conceive of God, I don’t think I would be able to believe in it. I think God has to be unfathomable in concept if he/it exists.

The General

The Episcopal Church in America just released its membership figures for 2016 – yep, another year of LOSS. Three-quarters of their congregations have fewer than 100 people attending on Sundays. Nothing shrinks a church faster than hanging out a rainbow flag.

ThroatwobblerMangrove

So you think acceptance of homosexuals is to blame for declining church attendance. Do you also think homosexuals are to blame for the hurricane devastation we are seeing?

The General

Yeah, acceptance of homosexuals does cause churches to shrink.

Never argue with data.

Episcopalians
1960: 3.2 million members
2016: 1.7 million

United Church of Christ
1960: 2,056,000
2016: 880,383
More than half its members in 50 years.

United Methodist
1960: 11,026,000
2015: 7.06 million

Presbyterian Church USA
1983: 3.1 million
2015: 1.5 million

Lutherans (ELCA)
1987: 5.2 million
2015: 3.6 million
The ELCA approved the ordination of non-celibate gays in 2009: it lost a half-million members in 2010-2011, so clearly there was a cause/effect relationship in this case between gay issues and membership decline.

Disciples of Christ
1960: 1.8 million
2014: 497,423

Kevin Scott

All right, so where is the data you promised? You showed me stats about shrinking data, which is fine and I don’t dispute. How do you know the declining numbers aren’t because people are increasingly finding themselves uncomfortable with the intolerance towards homosexuals and are leaving for THAT reason?

ThroatwobblerMangrove

You want me to give you some data on gay-hating churches with equal or worse declining attendance who haven’t changed their views? I can do that.

Your data shows that attendance is down. Whether that has to do with homosexuals being allowed in is unknown and unproven.

This style 10/6

I am delighted to see those figures

Etranger

So the only variable that would cause that decline is acceptance of gay people? Could it be more justified skepticism or mistrust of corrupt church leaders? Seems like there are a lot of reasons that could explain declining church attendance!

LadyInChrist♥BlessedBeTheLord

Wow, that is a huge decline.

Denny

Wiki says this denomination is less than 1 percent of the population of Scotland, so this apostasy does not affect many people.

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